Claim Now Murder In Foggy Bottom (Capital Crimes, #17) Fashioned By Margaret Truman Displayed As Audio Book

Bottom was built on a swamp, but the D, C. real estate is home to the Kennedy Center and the State Department, Murders dont often happen here, The corpse is well dressed and Post reporter Joe Patamos is going to find out who has killed the Canadian, But his story will have to wait, Three planes have been shot out of the sky, Russian SAMs have been found at all of the scenes and all of the alphabet agencies been investigating,

The Russians are suspect, yet the FBI strongly suspects a Washington state NeoNazi Militia, CIA operative Max Pauling is sent to Russia to gather Intel on the weapons as well as a potential link to the down planes that killed overscore American men, women, and children.
Patamos believes that the body found in Foggy Bottom is relevant and both he and Pauling discover the link to the murder and the terrorist attack about the same time, but in separate hemispheres.


Written in, Truman keeps the suspense taut and captures the fear that all Americans felt that September morning in, The characters are well developed and likable, but I felt that the story line could have been better developed,
Bought in Ljubljana. One her best Ive read, Several vignettes that end up tying together, Three commuter plains go down as the result of Russian missiles brought in to the US by domestic terrorists, Enjoyed it, however I figured out who the real bad guys were/way thru book, This book was a page turner and reminded me of more recent happenings in the United States, Three small passenger planes exploded indifferent areas of the country around the same time killing all aboard, andeyewitnesses described seeing something resembling a missile hitof the planes right before they crashed.
The book deals with representatives of the different agencies like FBI and CIA seeking to learn who was responsible and hopefully to prevent a fourth plane crash.
Reporters hot on the story are also involved, A cast of interesting characters make up the story and have facts in their individual lives that contribute in different ways, The book is set in Washington's Foggy Bottom and also Moscow, Russia, Undercover agents are involved in the investigation, Series regulars, Mac and Annabel Smith, are mentioned in the story because they live in DC but have no role in the investigation, Margaret Trumans Capital Crimes series has mysteries set in different Washington locations, giving readers a flavour of the place itself, and the power games always on in the Capital.
This one, bookin the series, is set in Foggy Bottom, Once a swamp, this became a trendy area with the Watergate, and the Kennedy Center, among other things, In this book, a body is found in a park in the area, a victim of a stabbing, Joe Potamos, a Washington Post reporter weve “met” in one of her books before is assigned to the case, and feels this is more than just a random stabbing, and keeps pursuing it even against instructions to drop the investigation.
Meanwhile three planes are shot down in different locations killing many innocents and sending chill waves through the country and the administration, Jessica Mumford, an employee of the State Department, and Max Pauling, who she is dating, and who is with the CIA are involved in the investigations at different levels, and we also see how different government and law enforcement departments respond to it.
But these two events turn out to be connected: and it is these characters that identify the connection,

While I didnt find myself immediately gripped by the book even though it was very readable, after a third of the way in, I was really hooked and found myself reading on right to the end to see how things turn out.
What was kind of unnerving about this one was that it was written injust a year before/and on a smaller scale deals with the same kind of situation, and the impact that it had on people in their daily lives.
While there was a mystery in this one as always, it had somewhat more of a thriller vibe, What stood out more than the mystery itself was the politics and diplomacy, and how these are what take the forefront pretty much all the time.
So the “truth” is sometimes never to surface and sometimes moulded to suit the demands of politics, I enjoyed meeting recurring characters from her books, Mac and Annabel ReedSmith, who are very much present through the book, though they dont have a role in the actual mystery, reporter Joe Potamos and his pianist girlfriend, Roseann, and also new to me characters Max Pauling and Jessica Mumford, who I think appear in other books as well.
This was a fastpaced and gripping read, Very enjoyable.
Kept my interest throughout although it did bog down a bit in the middle with lots of details,

One thing I didn't like was the gratuitous sprinkling of the happily married couple, Mackensie and Annabell, What's that about Once it was a swamp, Now Foggy Bottom is swimming with realestate sharks, When a man is found stabbed to death in this trendy D, C. neighborhood, it is major news, But within fortyeight hours the nation is gripped by a fear that leaves this comparatively small crime in the dark,

Three passenger planes are shot out of the sky, Everywherein law enforcement, in the media, and in the most secret realms of governmentmen and women scramble to find out who shot handheld missiles at the planes, and why.
It is a search that reaches from Moscow to the Pacific Northwest, putting some peoples lives in jeopardy and turning others lives inside out.
But no one can guess the truth: that the epicenter of the terrorist outbreak is Washington D, C . and a dead man behind a park bench in a place called Foggy Bottom, Intriguing. It held my interest throughout, This is my third in reading Truman's detective series set in Washington DC and it better than those that I have already read, She seems to struggle to develop credible characters, Truman clearly has done some homework about the State Department, "Murder in Foggy Bottom" begins with the death of a Canadian diplomat in Foggy Bottom, the Washington neighborhood where the State Department is headquartered.
The State Department does not have "divisions" as Truman writes, but rather bureaus, I do not think any president would stake his administration on whether an FBI agent provides better information than any other source, No, a real president would respond with caution, not hotheaded vanity to start another Waco,
Another fault Max gets the info he wants in a quick couple of days in Russia, How Some guy hands it to him written out on a sheet of

paper, Jessica takes some birdwatching photos in upstate New York and just happens to film her exhusband in a hategroup, Really
I am also tired of the good guy becoming the bad guy, I don't think I'll be reading any more in this series, This is best book by Ms Truman I have read, When I was in the middle of the book, she had so many different stories going on, I could never see how she could tie them together.
Everything is tied up and they all are part of the conclusion, It all starts with a dead man in a city park,

A good crime novel, The story goes across the U, S. and to Russia. Ms Truman had a great knowledge of multiple government offices as well as the FBI and CIA, A fun book that was hard to put down,

What does the dead body found in D, C. s Foggy Bottom district have to do with planes being blown out of the sky With the combine efforts of a newspaper reporter, the FBI and the CIA we learn how the events are tied together and the people who are responsible.


Living in the D, C. area makes reading Margaret Trumans books an added treat, Not only do we get to read great thrillers, we get to revisit places weve been, places we plan to go, or new places to go because all of author Trumans landmarks are real.
Alan Sklar did a great job in bringing the characters to life,

Margaret Truman books are great reads in that you get a great story with real landmarks to visit when you visit the D.
C. area and youll learn how the different agencies work within the federal government,
Wow. Much better than expected. I will be adding other books from the series to my tbr list,